Dalai Lama Urges Tibetan Unity Under New Leader
May 30, 2016DHARAMSALA, INDIA – MAY 27: Lobsang Sangay the prime minister of Tibet’s government in exile stands next to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama as he greets the crowd at his swearing-in ceremony at the Tsuglakhang Temple on May 27, 2016 in Dharamsala, India. Lobsang Sangay, sworn in as 2nd read more →
US Teacher Deported After Sending Text Messages Critical of China’s Tibet Policies
May 25, 2016By Aris Teon, www.thenanfang.com Teacher recounts harrowing story from Lhasa L. is a U.S. citizen in her early 30s. In January 2015 she moved to China to work as an English teacher in a public high school in Shenzhen. Her life in China was good. She had already lived in read more →
‘Divine Dharamsala’ selected as Smart City
May 25, 2016Lalit Mohan, Tribune News Service, Dharamsala, May 24 ‘Divine Dharamsala’ as it has been christened in the proposal was today selected as Smart City by the Union Ministry for Urban Development. It means that the city would receive a grant of Rs 1,000 crore from the union government in the read more →
War underneath the Tibetan Plateau
May 24, 2016By Nyima Choephell Bon, an ancient Tibetan religion states that nature is the abbot of all gods. Any harmful acts on nature will in turn curse the actor; with the stronger belief that earth spirits have the power to stop rain. Tibetans embraced this indigenous ideology for centuries and as read more →
Watch Out, China — U.S. and Indian Militaries Develop Closer Ties
May 22, 2016U.S. and Indian troops use a notepad to draw out and each others’ patrol formations during Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2015. Kevin Knodell photo by KEVIN KNODELL, Warisboring.com Washington and New Delhi are getting a lot more serious about military-to-military ties. As the United States and India become more wary of read more →
China Fakes 488 Million Social Media Posts a Year: Study
May 20, 2016Bloomberg, May 19, 2016 China’s government fabricates about 488 million social media comments a year — nearly the same as one day of Twitter’s total global volume — in a massive effort to distract its citizens from bad news and sensitive political debates, according to a study. Three scholars led read more →
Dragon Appeasement Pointless
May 19, 2016Pravin Sawhney, The Pioneer, 19 May 2016 China’s increasing military build-up along the border, its forces’ interoperability measures alongside the Pakistani Army, and its hostility on matters that are strategically crucial to India, should make our policymakers sit up and respond sensibly and firmly. According to the Pentagon’s recent annual read more →
Little blue men: the maritime militias pushing China’s claims
May 17, 2016Simon Tisdall, The Guardian, 16 May 2016 China is using large numbers of irregular maritime militias, dubbed “little blue men”, to assert and expand its control over an increasingly large area of disputed and reclaimed islands and reefs in the strategically important South China Sea, the Pentagon says. The militias, read more →
Re-election of Exiled PM Spurs Hope for Renewed Tibet Talks
May 16, 2016Lobsang Sangay, the incumbent prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, speaks to media after being re-elected for second term in office in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, April 27, 2016. by Shannon Van Sant, Voice of America, 16 May 2016 HONG KONG— The re-election of Lobsang Sangay as prime minister of the read more →
China Pressures Europe to Stay Silent on Human Rights
May 16, 2016Image Credit: Tiananmen Square image via ben bryant / Shutterstock.com By Kai Mueller, May 15, 2016 – The Diplomat China’s attempts to export its censorship and authoritarianism raise serious questions for all European countries. China’s belligerent diplomacy in Europe has been in the spotlight this week after a German lawmaker read more →